I'm an American--blowing things up is in my nature. Tho I'd imagine Brits
of my age would have got off on playing RAF vs Nazis.
There was of course the secondary pleasure of glue intoxication. Who
knew?
At 02:46 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:
I assumed blowing up plastic
ship models with firecrackers was an American thing. Did English kids
also get them to float properly on the farm pond by gluing BBs to the
hulls?
I don't think there are any objective criteria that matter in judging
poems, unlike in grading student papers. . . .
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry
(University of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House
Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in English.
There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in
The
Nation
